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With the help of someone on these forums I have just set up a wireless network using Appl AirPort Extreme.
I use Microsoft Entourage on both machines both using the same account.
When I receive an email, it appears in the in-box of whichever of the two machines happened to receive the mail first, and doesn't appear on the other computer at all.
Is this what you would expect to happen? Ideally, I would like all mail to be stored on the main desktop computer whether to I originally looked at it on the desktop or the laptop. Is this posible?
Thanks
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Thanks, Duane and Ernie - I think your suggestion will work fine.
But would another way to do it be to synchronise the contents of the two hard discs, so whichever HD has the most recent version of the Microsoft User Data folder, the other, older version would be updated?
This takes me to a question about synchronisation more broadly (and this may belong in a different bit of the forum, but never mind...)
I've now got my network set up so I can access anything from one computer on the other. So while I'm on the network, I can access and modify the documents on the main, desktop, machine from the PowerBook.
But if I held all my documents (including the Microsoft User Data folder, my iTunes library etc etc) on both hard drives, is there software I can use to ensure that each HD has the most recent version of each document. This would mean I could go away from home, work on a document on the PowerBook and when I got home, the version on the desktop would automatically be p?
Am I missing something really obvious here?!
Grateful for any pointers.
Thank you.

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